Ciro Santilli's projects

Major projects can be seen at: Section "The most important projects done by Ciro Santilli".

A summary of minor projects is given at: Ciro Santilli's minor projects.

This section is a dump for anything else, to keep those sacred first sections clean.

As metnioned at Section "Linux Kernel Module Cheat (LKMC)", this should be merged into that other project.

In 2016 Ciro made a script downloaded Facebook profile pictures.

This was possible at the time without any login by using a 2010 profile ID dump from originally announced at: https://blog.skullsecurity.org/2010/return-of-the-facebook-snatchers since profile picture access was not authenticated.

The profile ID dump was downloadable through a BitTorrent named fbdata.torrent of about 2.8GB, mostly compressed. Doing: on Ubuntu 20.04 gives: This dump widely reported e.g. on Hacker News at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1554558.

At some point however, Facebook finally started to require tokens to view public profile pictures, thus making such further collection impossible, e.g. as of 2021: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v9.0/user/picture mentions:

Querying a User ID (UID) now requires an access token.

This is also mentioned e.g. at: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11442442/get-user-profile-picture-by-id. This major privacy flaw was therefore finally addressed at some point, making it impossible to reproduce this project.

Ciro downloaded 10 thousand of those pictures, and did facial extraction with: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13211745/detect-face-then-autocrop-pictures/37501314#37501314

He then created single a video by joining 10 thousand of those cropped faces which can be uploaded e.g. to YouTube. Ciro later decided it was better to make those videos private however, as sooner later he'd lose his account for it.

Companies like YouTube blocking this kind of content is the type of thing that makes companies take longer to fix such gaping privacy issues, and is a bit like security through obscurity. A video makes it clear to everyone that there is a privacy issue very effectively. But people prefer to hide and look away, and then 99% of people who know nothing about tech get their privacy busted by actual criminals/government spies and never learn about it.

But now that Facebook finally fixed it, it's fine, no need for the video anymore.

This is mostly stuff from before 2016 when Ciro was anxious to document his contributions to get a job.

Most of the projects here are also minor contributions, or Ciro later noticed that the projects were not useful enough to work on and that he was actually wasting his time.

Some of the contributions are subjectively self evaluated based on:

Only patches which were reviewed by at least one person with push permission will be listed here.

This may also include patches which were rejected in favor of another patch, but strongly influenced the merged patch.

Patches which were merged by Ciro himself on repositories which eh feels have large public visibility, e.g. those to which he has been given push permission.

Repositories to which Ciro gained push permission because of his contributions:

This shall not list bugs solved by my accepted pull requests.

Disclaimer: closed source vendors tend to be highly secretive, solving small issues without any reply, so I use my best judgement given the lack of feedback.

The following contributions where not immediately verified by others, but they were not reverted either and I think they are good.